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Fabricant, Michael B.; Fisher, Robert - Settlement Houses Under Siege - 9780231119313 - V9780231119313
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Settlement Houses Under Siege

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Description for Settlement Houses Under Siege Paperback. This book focuses on the externally driven difficulties of service workers and agencies in shaping services-such as the consequences of recent conservative social policies on agency life and the way in which the present political environment influences services through privatization. Num Pages: 289 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; GTB; JFSG; JKSB; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 173 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain Community Organizations in New York City examines the past, present, and future of the settlement house in particular and nonprofit community-based services as a whole. Too often viewed as an artifact of the Progressive era, the settlement house remains today, in a variety of guises, a vital instrument capable of strengthening the social capital of impoverished communities. Yet it has been under attack in recent years, particularly in New York City. Cutbacks in social service funding at federal, state, and local levels during the late 1990s left many nonprofit agencies in an ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
Number of Pages
289
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231119313
SKU
V9780231119313
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99-15

About Fabricant, Michael B.; Fisher, Robert
Michael B. Fabricant is a professor at the Hunter College School of Social Work. Robert Fisher is director of urban studies and professor of social work at the University of Connecticut.

Reviews for Settlement Houses Under Siege
Fabricant and Fisher's Settlement Houses Under Siege makes a needed contribution to our understanding of community-based settlement houses and the impact their funding sources have had on their capacity to build and strengthen community life... Fabricant and Fisher are committed to the notion of community building and the story they tell about how much settlements have been forced to retreat ... Read more

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